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well, at this point (my son is 20 months old) we are going through 1 pack of disposables a week. Each pack is @ $9 in this area so that is about $36 a month or $432 a year that I am saving by having him in cloth. YEAH frugality!

We were started Cloth diapering in August when my daughter was almost 4months old. By cloth diapering we are saving $42-57/mo (depending on the diapers we would by ranging from $7-10 per pack, once every 5days or so)

Well, right now I am CDing part time while I build up my stash. I was buying my disposables really cheap on sale. I would say I'm saving around $20 a month. But when I go full time, it will be about $30 or $40 a month! Yeah!

goes through about 6 diapers a day so that's 42 diapers a week an average box of dispoables has between 36 and 46 diapers in it so thats about a box per week. the cheapest box i've seen is $12 so we're saving at least $48 per month using cloth and that's not even factoring in the use of wipes!

I'm not a huge fan of name brand sposies I'd buy luvs or costco brand so I'd save around $30 a month but I'm soon to have another baby (in january) so I'm sure I'll be saving double that in a few months here!

Well, right now I am only using cloth at night on my 3 year old, so 1 diaper a day. I think that would be roughly a pack a month and we used Target brand diapers before we switched so I'm probably only saving $10-15 a month now (the 15 would definitely include wipes) But we'll have a newborn in the house again in just a few short months and at that point it would easily be saving us $40 a month of generic diapers and that's if my 3 year old is staying dry at night by then.

I'm using disposables on my almost 2 year old. I also use disposable wipes. Hey, 2 years olds can get really dirty and love to make big messes!! I just can't wait until she's fully potty trained. She also attends daycare fulltime, so I feel as if I purchase 2x as many diapers and wipes per month to keep a suppy for home as well as for daycare.

Well, I guess, if we cloth diapers and used cloth wipes, we would save about $80- $100 per month.

I'm actually not sure if newborn stage I will actually save money over disposables.. but that won't stop me – money isn't the reason. I believe Med size (that last a while and with one sizes) and higher I will save a bunch somewhere in the neighborhood of 000s.

We were spending an average of $30 a month on wipes and Huggies (we buy bulk). Honestly, I have yet to make my money back yet on cloth diapering – I have 9 diapers and have been doing this for 4 months so I am currently in the hole – 🙁 But once baby number 2 comes along, I know we will be recouping our cost and starting to save around $30 a month minus the water and detergent bill (plus our toddler will be able to use the one size diapers for bedtime as she is currently toilet training – so I won't be buying pull ups or diapers just for her- so the savings will increase)

I would spend around 28.99/box of diapers. I would go through that ever 2 weeks. So I'd save around $60/month & break even on diapers with what I have in about 2.5 months. Plus saving on gas if I have to make a seperate trip if we run out too quickly.

I'm afraid to calculate what I do/don't save each month. I have two kids in cloth, so that makes up for a lot, but I use coin-op washers and I spend about $5 a week just on washing. But I'm okay with that, as the reasons I chose cloth were environmental, health, and cuteness factor. Saving money is just a bonus, if I save any at all.

I am thinking we will be saving between 60 – 75 $ a month once the newest is born. I am not sure I will cloth diaper the first week, but after that I usually get in my groove and probably will be so excited to withhold from using my new fluff!!!

I spent $50/month on disposable diapers and wipes before switching to cloth, and that doesn't include the cost of garbage pickup, garbage bags (which were more costly than power to wash diapers in our HE washer), or the mess of bedding that needed to be laundered almost daily due to disposable blowouts. Perhaps a half hour more of my time to wash diapers 3x a week, but better spent washing than cleaning up blowouts! Once we calculate in the resale value of the diapers (and/or reusability for our next child), it adds up to at least $1800 (not to mention, NO BLOWOUTS in cloth), depending on when our child(ren) are potty trained and how many children we have.

I'm saving at least $50 every month, not only am I not buying disposable diapers (at least $40 a month), but I also don't buy disposable wipes & I don't need 2 tubes of rash cream each month like I did when she was in disposables.

I think I'm actually also doing LESS laundry because she no longer has daily poop blowouts all over her clothes.

At one point I figured up the total cost so I could tell others, and then averaging that out I say we'll save about $50 a month once our little man arrives. BUT I've been able to find some used diapers in excellent condition, which will make the cost even cheaper than I originally figured 🙂

When we buy we get the cheapo Kroger brand (with a coupon) they're about $6/pack – I have no idea how many we'd actually use, nor how many are actually in the pack, so I'll just say for both boy, approximately, $15/week?

Right now I think we are saving close to $40/month but once the new baby gets here and we have 2 in diapers again it would be at least $80/month savings! I was especially grateful to be a cloth diapering mama when my husband was laid off for this very reason!

If I could always get Huggies for $9 a pack and my lo went through them at a rate of a pack a week, I would have saved roughly $15/month over the course of our cloth diapering experience (3 months through potty training @ 26 months). However, for baby #2 that will be arriving any day now, the savings will be MUCH greater b/c I won't have to buy very many new diapers, and I know what I like so I won't be tempted to buy so many different types.

Hmmm I know you guys have comment moderation enabled, but I still don't see my original post! I wrote it earlier today…. something along the lines of not remembering exactly how much we're saving. I did the math a long time ago…

Probably somewhere between $30 and $40. We have #2 coming in a week, so I KNOW the savings will start racking up then!! I'm hoping to do cloth wipes with him, too, as I remember going through SOOO many wipes when DD was newborn!!

I'm guessing we'd be spending about $70-$80 a month for our 3 little guys. The oldest only needs nighttime diapering, next in line is being potty trained, and then the baby in diapers full time. I haven't been keeping up with the prices of sposies though so I might be way off.

We are just brand new at cloth diapering… so far I have not had any savings b/c I have spent more in cloth diapers than I would have in disposals…. BUT I hope after I get my stash all situated… to save about $45 a month… $540 a year and if he doesn't potty train until 3.. that is $1620…. WOW that is more than I paid for my mini van!!!!

We are starting to purchase our stash of cloth diapers and since we wanted to do a variety of prefolds, all in ones and one size diapers it is a little higher than say all prefolds. We are expecting to spend around $20 a month to wash them including the purchase of detergent. If we were to purchase disposable diapers it would be around $80 a month.

In the first year we would have spent:$400 for cloth diaper stash$240 for washing and detergent

which is $ 640 compared to $960, so about $320 or $26 a month the first year and then $60 a month afterwards.

We look forward to decreasing our waste and giving our child the best with cloth diapers.

I am saving somewhere around $30 a month by using cloth diapers and wipes. My stash is still paying for itself, because we have only been CD for 4 months. We are excited that we are expecting another baby and will be able to use our CD stach for another baby!

We didn't switch to cloth til our son was 15 months. Considering the amount we spent to get everything we needed for cloth, we are not saving money YET. We would like to have more kids though, so it should eventually pay off big.

I save about $50 a month using cloth diapers. I made most of my baby's diapers and he's been wearing the mediums for about a year now. I've spent less than $200 on all fabric, used diapers I've bought, and covers. He is now 18 months old and I still have enough fabric to finish off his stash when he needs a size large. I'll spend another $20-30 on large covers and then we'll be done.

I think I'm saving close to $50 a month as compared to using Costco or Wal-Mart brand disposables and wipes- I'm using prefolds, fitteds I sewed out of recycled fabric, and Thirsties and Proraps covers. Plus a few other misc. diapers.

we are just starting out in cloth, so right now we haven't saved any money. but in a couple of months when we "break even" it will be about $50 a month and the savings will be even more when we have #4 soon.

My rent includes my water bill (weather I use it or not), so I would guess that I save $10 a week or $40 a month!!And I wash every night–so it only took us two months to recoup cost on the diapers we bought!!

We haven't tried CD yet, but our 2nd son is 8.5 months old and we are considering starting. We estimate that at this point in Size 3 Luvs diapers, we would save $29.42/month at a rate of 6 diapers per day.

That's 180 diapers per month we could keep out of the landfill, for the next 19 months (if he PT's as quickly as our oldest son did!).

Wowza! That's 3420 diapers we could keep out of the landfill! Not to mention saving around $550 doing it!

It's been great to see the other comments, how much families are saving using cloth diapers -money and resources! My $40 a month savings doesn't account for the environmental savings in the long run.shannoncarman(at)yahoo(dot)com

Well, let's see. We were going through approximately 1 1/2 boxes of diapers a month. And if I'm buying Pampers which we did on occasion we're saving apx. $30.00. But if I bought Luvs which is more like what we did, I'm saving apx. $25.00.

We also have been using cloth wipes for a month or two now, so I'm now also saving about $10 on a box of wipes as well!

subtracting $2 for water and soap usage, I'd say around $78/month. The last time I bought 'sposies was before we moved her in May, and it was around $20 for 38 diapers I think. x4 weeks minus laundry costs. Not bad, really.

At least $50 per month. I used target's brand, but now that he is drinking water and juice we go through alot more diapers. I'm also crazy about changing his diaper ever 2 hours even when I was using sposies.

I would be spending around $48 a month on sposies. I haven't done the math on my cloth diapers stash. But I know we are saving so much more $$$! We want more children too 🙂 So its really going to pay off in the long run.

Right now with our part-time CDing we are saving about $15 or $20 and soon, when we go full-time, we'll be saving about $40/month! That is SOOOO worth it to me. Not to mention my house smells better and I'm not stuffing all that yucky trash into landfills!

I plan on having 4 children. That could be a lot of disposable diapers and a lot of money!!! That is why we chose cloth diapers! If you have a good start-up investment and take very good care of your cloth diapers-following the washing instructions, etc., I would say a couple thousand when all is said and done!!!! Convinced yet?!

we have saved about 200 in the last 2 1/2 months but we barely have enough to last us a day and because of that have still had to occasionally buy disposables which my son breaks out really bad from in fact he has a bad rash right now because we ran out of cloth

Facebook follower…I'm working on getting a cloth diaper set going…but due to our limited military income it is hard. We are a eco-friendly household…and are really wanting to switch to CD's for our little one. Its better for her…the earth…our budget…. Its just hard due to the up front funds needed, which is holding us back at the moment. I would love to win the Bummis Diaper Kit…to finally get use going on the right path. I estimate that we would save about $60 a month (inc. wipes/she is a heavy wetter). I cain't waite to get started…wish me luck, thanks. ;-)Read More

I haven't saved any money yet. I've been using a diaper service for the last three months. I costs $72 a month for diapers and covers and weekly pick up and drop off. I loved the service but it is getting expensive. I decided to give it a try and wash my own diapers. I'm staring out with 2 dozen prefolds and six covers. I spent about $100. I look to save about $20 a month vs disposables only because of inital cost of diapers and covers. I expect to use this size for about two to three months.

We currently spend $15 a month on disposables, and about the same a month on cloth diaper products (soap, covers, inserts, new dips) plus the $6 a month wipes (if I could break myself of the habit we could stop this cost). I figures if we did disposables all the time we'd be spending a good $50-60 more a month.

I think we save around $30 a month at least. I'm not sure as I haven't bought any sposies since DS was about 3 weeks old! I've also bought about 4 packs of wipes in 10 months (only for out of the house use).

Well, having previously used sposies I know that between diapers and wipes I was spending about $100 / month based on 8 diapers / day. (Had to use specific brands due to her skin sensitivity and even then she still had a constant rash).

I don't cloth diaper yet, but I have a little one on the way and get most of my cloth diapers at consignment stores or I make them myself. I figure, especially in the early months, that we will save around $50-$60 a month. That is huge to us as money is very tight right now.

With 4 kids in the plans, I foresee saving thousands! It's all about finding the cloth diaper that works for you, following the instructions for taking care of them, and best of all saving money! Which, in turn, means more fun-filled family vacations for us!

We save $40-$50/month using cloth. Our savings happened pretty quickly since almost all of our diapers were gifts or 'found' money ($ made at a yardsale where we got rid of unused items instead of $ from our actual budget.)

I think i invested about $300 in cloth diapers. I figure you spend about $50 on disposables a month. I have cloth diapered for 7 months now. So all my cloth diapering from here on out is free each month. I dont count laundry bc i do less laundry than when i used disposables (i had blow outs each time!). In the long run I think i will save well over $2000.